Through support from the What Can We Do? (WCWD) Micro Grant from Asian American Arts Alliance and the Asian American Impact Fund, Roxy Chang from Gongming Collective and Interpreter-trainer Sayuri Gomez facilitated a 2 day Training on Language Justice & Community Interpreting on May 13th and May 14th, 2023. The workshop began with the first day focusing on interpreter ethics, an overview on the different fields of interpretation, and what it means to interpret for language justice. The day concluded with interpreters sharing stories of their own experiences around different interpretation settings in community: The good, the bad and the ugly.

The second day was a hands-on experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation. Participating interpreters were invited to use the interpretation equipment in turns and practice together. Facilitators offered language justice resources to participants following the workshop.